COMMENT: It is heartening that at a national level there is increasing recognition of the role community health workers can play in helping to improve our country’s maternal and child health outcomes.
Among South Africa’s everyday heroes are community health workers, a largely unrecognised but critical workforce that takes primary healthcare to the homes of vulnerable families.
Community health workers visit homes of pregnant women and mothers with babies in the first 1 000 days from conception to a child’s second birthday. This is a period when vulnerability to stunting is at its highest. Community health workers help the women with the physical and psychological demands of pregnancy and the emotional and nutritional needs of a baby.
The community health workers could play a significant role in turning the tide on stunting in South Africa if adequately supported with the resources, training, coaching, mentoring and dignified employment conditions they need to do their work optimally.
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